[ecrea] Call for Papers - Journal of Cultural Economy

> JOURNAL OF CULTURAL ECONOMY
>
> Special Issue: Financial Panics and Crises: 
> Cultural and Historical Perspectives
> Editor: Mary Poovey
>
> Financial crises come in many 
> varieties.  Indeed, as Walter Bagehot insisted, 
> if one emphasizes the panic phase of what can 
> only retrospectively be identified as a crisis, 
> instead of the mania that precedes or the 
> contraction that follows, the economist can 
> identify several kinds of unsettled economic 
> behavior, any of which might eventually become a 
> financial crisis.  Thus, according to Bagehot, 
> the 1866 collapse of Overend, Gurney, and Co. 
> caused a credit panic; the scare of 1864 was a 
> bullion panic; and the collapse of the railway 
> bubble in 1848 sparked a capital panic.  In 
> Bagehot?s account, such periodic eruptions were 
> undoubtedly disruptive, but, as episodes in a 
> mature nation?s ordinary business cycle, they 
> did not mean that the modern system of capital 
> was fatally flawed. For Bagehot, a panic, like 
> the mania that inaugurated it, was ?a 
> calculable, though unpleasant piece of business? 
> and, as such, grist for the economist?s mill.
>
> Only time will tell if the current global 
> financial crisis reprises any of the panic forms 
> that Bagehot identified; only economists of the 
> future can decide whether the current recession 
> heralds a second coming of the Great Depression 
> or constitutes an altogether new kind of 
> economic event.  While we wait for the future to 
> access our current situation, we can learn from 
> past attempts to understand, manage, and survive 
> financial manias, panics, and crises.  This 
> special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy 
> addresses the history of financial 
> upheavals.  Topics may include the shortages in 
> coin, bullion, or other monetary forms, which 
> caused governments to intervene in a nation?s 
> money supply; debates about how to define or 
> prevent financial crises; accounts of specific 
> panics and their impact; varieties of fraud or 
> other criminal behavior that accompanied 
> speculative booms; the role of the banking 
> industry in various crises; literary or cultural 
> representations of panics; and the global repercussions of past crises.
>
> Article length­8,000 words
> Deadline for submission of papers­ 1 January 2011
> Submit papers to 
> <mailto:(Cultural-Economy /at/ open.ac.uk)>(Cultural-Economy /at/ open.ac.uk)
>
> For pre-submission advice contact Mary Poovey: 
> <mailto:(mary.poovey /at/ nyu.edu)>(mary.poovey /at/ nyu.edu)
>
> Journal of Cultural Economy­Editorial Mission
>
> It is now clear that the three main organising 
> concepts of the social and cultural sciences ? 
> culture, economy, and the social ? are each 
> undergoing a process of significant 
> reinterpretation just as our understanding of 
> the relations between them is changing equally 
> rapidly.  The Journal of Cultural Economy will 
> serve as a major international vehicle for the 
> intellectual clarification and empirical 
> exploration of these developments.  Its mission 
> is to promote work that examines the varied and 
> changing ways in which social, cultural, 
> technical, and economic networks and practices 
> interact with one another in complex ways whose 
> analysis requires the abandonment of attempts to 
> differentiate these as belonging to ontologically separate realms.
>
> For further details go to 
> <http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/RJCE>http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/RJCE
> www.tandf.co.uk/journals
>
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